Journaling Helped Me Realize 80% of My Effort Was Being Wasted—Here’s What I Did Next...

First of all, I wanted to apologize for not making any value posts for a while. I won't be consistent with the value posts for the next few weeks. Anyway...

For a long time, I felt busy all the time but wasn’t making the meaningful progress in my business.

I was putting in the hours, grinding every day, but something wasn’t adding up. My output didn't match the input. But then, I used journaling to fix this problem and take my productivity to the next level. Here's how...

So, I started journaling on one simple question:

Where is my time and energy actually going?" ⏳⚡️

I tracked everything I did for a week and wrote about it in detail. Then I asked myself:

👉 Which tasks are directly moving my business forward?

👉 Which tasks feel productive but don’t actually matter?

👉 Which tasks drain my energy without giving me results?

After a few days, the patterns became painfully obvious:

📌 I was wasting my effort, time, and energy on low-impact work. Things that made me feel productive but weren’t driving growth. They were unimportant tasks. Sometimes urgent, but still unimportant.

📌 I was constantly context-switching, which killed my focus and wasted time on switching tasks.

📌 I was doing tasks I should have delegated or automated. I was wasting hours on things that weren’t worth my time.

I was working hard—but I wasn’t working smart.

Journaling helped me realize the harsh truth: Most of my effort, time, and energy was being completely wasted.

Here's how I fixed it:

Once I saw where my time was going, I made three big changes:

✅ I ruthlessly cut out low-value work. Everything that wasn't driving revenue, growth, or learning was eliminated.

“If you’re not adding things back in at least 10% of the time, you’re clearly not cutting enough." - Elon Musk

✅ I batched similar tasks together. I stopped jumping between half completed tasks. Focus = Speed.

✅ I prioritized tasks using ROI as my main performance metric – Every morning, I journaled: What’s the ONE thing I can do today to create the biggest impact?

The result? I started getting 10X more done in less time—and my business finally took off.

If You Feel Stuck, Do This:

For the next 7 days, journal on:

📝 Where is my time actually going? (journal about everything you do from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed.)

📝 What tasks feel productive but don’t really matter?

📝 What’s the ONE thing I should be focusing on instead?

Then, make the adjustments. You’ll be shocked at how much time you’re wasting and how fast you can fix it.

💬 Comment below about any questions you have about journaling and I'll make a post about it

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⚠️⚠️⚠️ By the way, I recently launched a new telegram channel. I'll be dropping some crazy sauce in there regularly. The link is on my profile page. Click on the 🔗 icon to access it.

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